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Belgium 10-3-26 All Members Physical english

The Composable Enterprise: Engineered with AI

From modular business design to AI-driven pipelines, architectures, and operationsA composable enterprise is built on modular processes, API-driven ecosystems, low-code platforms, and cloud-native services. It promises speed and adaptability by allowing organisations to reconfigure their capabilities as conditions change. However, modular design alone does not guarantee resilience; the way these systems are engineered and operated is just as important.This is where AI is beginning to make a difference. Beyond generating snippets of code, AI is already influencing how entire systems are developed and run: accelerating CI/CD pipelines, improving test coverage, optimising Infrastructure-as-Code, sharpening observability, and even shaping architectural decisions. These changes directly affect how quickly new business components can be deployed, connected, and retired.In this session, we will examine how CIOs can bring these two movements together:Composable design is the framework for flexibility and modularity.AI-augmented engineering is the force that delivers the speed, quality, and intelligence needed to sustain it.The pitfalls of treating them in isolation: composability that collapses under slow engineering cycles, or AI that only adds complexity without a modular structure.The discussion goes beyond concepts to practical implications: how to architect organisations that can be recomposed at speed, without losing control or reliability. The outcome is an enterprise that is not only modular in design but also engineered to adapt continuously under real-world conditions.

Belgium 12-3-26 Physical english

The Third-Party Risk Reckoning: How far can you trust your vendors?

Tomato! Tomato! Tomato! Get your tomato now! Every vendor sells security. And every company depends on vendors, partners, and suppliers. The more digital the business becomes, the longer that list grows, and so does the attack surface. One weak link, and there is always one, or one missed update, and trust collapses faster than any firewall can react. What used to be a procurement checklist has become a full-time discipline. Questionnaires, audits, and endless documentation prove that everyone’s “compliant,” yet incidents keep happening. So it’s clear: the issue isn’t lack of policy, or maybe a bit, but mostly lack of visibility. Beyond a certain point, even the most secure organisation is only as safe as its least prepared partner (or an employee who hadn’t had their morning coffee). So how far can you trust your vendors? How do you check what you can’t control? And when does assurance become theatre instead of protection? Does it come at a different cost? Let’s exchange what works and what fails in third-party risk management: live monitoring, shared responsibility models, contractual levers, and the reality of building trust in a chain you don’t own. A closed conversation for those redefining what partnership means when risk is shared but accountability isn’t.

Belgium 19-3-26 Country Members Physical french

Vendor Detox: La consolidation vaut-elle le risque ?

Moins de Partenaires : La consolidation vaut-elle le risque ? Le problème est la prolifération des fournisseurs : trop d'outils causant de la complexité, une taxe d'intégration paralysante et de la redondance. La Taxe d'Intégration est le coût caché (en temps, en échecs et en ressources) d'essayer de faire fonctionner ensemble des systèmes disparates. Cet échange se concentre sur des stratégies éprouvées pour simplifier de manière agressive le parc technologique, consolider les fournisseurs et élever certains fournisseurs clés au rang de partenaires stratégiques.

March 12, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

The Third-Party Risk Reckoning: How far can you trust your vendors?

March 24, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

Killing Zombie Projects: Knowing when to stop, restart, or quietly let go

Every organisation has them, projects that keep running long after their purpose has faded. No one remembers who asked for them, but shutting them down feels riskier than keeping them alive. And eventually, people stay assigned, budgets stay allocated, and energy drains into work that no longer matters. Inertia at its finest.

March 26, 2026 Squad Session Invitation Only Physical english

Measuring Value in AI Initiatives: Defining ROI, accountability, and measurable outcomes in complex environments

AI projects continue to multiply, but proving their value remains difficult. Most organisations can track activity, not impact. Dashboards count pilots and models, yet few translate to measurable business outcomes. The result is familiar: success stories without clarity on what they actually delivered.

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Baker Hughes teams up with Trend Micro to deliver protection for critical infrastructure and OT environments

Teams up with Trend Micro to deliver protection for critical infrastructure and OT environments

We have built a reputation as a trusted partner in the OT security space through our long history of cyber protection, with over three million operational hours protecting critical infrastructure.

Terry Knight

Vice President, Baker Hughes

Trend Micro and Baker Hughes’ Nexus Controls operational technology (OT) security experts teamed up through a strategic framework agreement, signed in late 2019. Together the companies aim to provide comprehensive, industry leading guidance and support for enterprises running critical OT environments.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is expanding rapidly and is predicted to add $14.2 trillion to the global economy by 2030. Under the terms of the agreement, Trend Micro and Baker Hughes plan to work together to help mitigate these and other cyber-risks in support of IT and security leaders looking to drive digital transformation success. The Strategic Alliance Agreement contemplates:

Trend Micro products bundled as part of Nexus Controls
Assessments for IIoT cybersecurity and threat, providing defense-in-depth specifics
Joint development of IIoT cyber security best practices and resources
Expertise to help IIoT leaders identify risk and threat vectors in specific OT environments and recommendations on how to eliminate these issues
Additional security solutions purpose-built for OT environments

Legacy operating systems, communication protocols, patching challenges, widespread vulnerabilities, and poor authentication processes are all known security risks in IIoT environments. Trend Micro research over recent years has highlighted issues with SCADA Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems, MQTT and CoAP comms protocols, and serious security problems with the radio frequency (RF) controllers used in industrial machinery. Nexus Controls’ cybersecurity solutions, including SecurityST, are a natural fit with Trend Micro’s products to provide a more comprehensive and secure offering for OT environments.

“Organizations in industrial, manufacturing, oil & gas, power and other sectors are rushing to digitally transform their operations in a bid to become more efficient, cost effective and agile. But this converging of IT and OT has the unwanted impact of exposing legacy technologies to the risk of cyber-attack,” said Oscar Chang, executive vice president of development, Trend Micro.

“Together with Baker Hughes, we’ll be able to deliver purpose-built solutions and expertise designed specifically to mitigate cyber risk in these critical environments, arming CISOs and Operational Technologists with the knowledge and tools they need to drive value for the entire organization.”

“We have built a reputation as a trusted partner in the OT security space through our long history of cyber protection, with over three million operational hours protecting critical infrastructure,” said Terry Knight, Vice President at Baker Hughes. “Enterprise customers will benefit from the additional threat intelligence provided from Trend Micro. Together with Trend Micro, Nexus Controls will offer what we believe to be one of the most comprehensive packages of security solutions in the industry today.”

Together with Baker Hughes, we’ll be able to deliver purpose-built solutions and expertise designed specifically to mitigate cyber risk in these critical environments.

Oscar Chang

Executive Vice President of Development
Trend Micro

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